The Chinese population has been growing since the beginning of Chinese civilization, but never as rapidly as when the People’s Republic of China was formed. Mao Zedong believed that expanding the population would lead to a spur in economic growth. The People’s Republic of China provided improved sanitation and medicine, which helped facilitate the growth of the Chinese population. The encouragement of population growth was soon ended after both the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution because China was unable to support such a large expansion of the population. The One-Child Policy was enacted in 1979, and although it helped level off the population, it has had many negative effects on the Chinese economy as well as Chinese society.
After the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution China was able to reevaluate their current policies in order to better suit their current economy and population. The growth rate in China had grown exponentially, which caused numerous problems socially and economically. When Mao Zedong was in power he believed that a large growth in population would spur economic growth. With this idea in mind he started to industrialize China without taking into consideration how this massive growth in people would affect the food supply, and natural resources. As China’s population grew the food supply became depleted. Mao Zedong was very focused on industrializing China and he did not think about the repercussions of neglecting the agricultural segment of the country.
When Mao Zedong took power in China he created the People’s Republic of China. The People’s Republic is a one-party socialist state controlled by the Communist Party. With power from the Communist Party Mao ...
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During the first half of 50’s government did not limit the population growth but did the exact opposite and actually encourage families to have more children. This was due to the Mao Zedong’s or Chairman Mao’s believe that more population would mean more economic development, more labor and more growth, however, late 1950’s changed that and that is when China began implementing first population control measures. As population reached 600 million Mao expressed his wish for population to remain in this level. Government soon realized that in order to keep population at this level, long term population control would have to be implemented. First they began by simply distributing various forms of contraceptives among general population. As famine of 1959-1961 struck the country it set the policy aside but as soon as country began to demonstrate signs of recovery the family planning campaign resumed where it left with distribution of contraceptives. By the late 1970s, China had experienced success in decreasing fertility rates by increasing the use of birth control under the slogan "Late, Long and Few". As a result China's population growth dropped by half between 1970 and 1976. Nonetheless, it soon leveled off, making government and officials seek more drastic measures and on September 25, 1980 an open letter by the Chinese Communist Party established One-Child Policy (OCP) also called Family Planning Policy (FPP). Nevertheless the OCP name is misleading since the policy allows for exceptions. For instance rural families with first child being disabled or being girl are allowed to have another child. Also, couples where both bride and groom are single children are allowed to have two ...
Imagine having to be told by the government that you were only allowed to have one child because of your ethnicity and then being forced to pay for an additional child if it happened. China fell under Communist control in 1949 with Mao Zedong leading the country. China had just gotten out of a bad war so Chairman Mao believed that the Chinese people should have as many babies as they could; he called this plan the Great Leap Forward. Soon, China was captured in a famine that killed nearly 30 million people, so Mao told the Chinese people to have smaller families. Mao Zedong created the One-Child Policy (OCP) to help prevent large families. It seemed a great idea at the time, but would soon lead to severe social issues, gender issues, and ironically, population issues.
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Once China’s population began to grow at an exponential rate the government feared that there would eventually be social unrest, and chaos. This social unrest and chaos would eventually cause an internal crisis for the country. At that time, China’s leaders believed that population control was one of its top priorities because it was precondition for the coun...
Can you imagine if a one-child policy was enforced in the U.S.? It would not go over well. That is exactly what happened in China in 1980 and lasting thirty-five years until 2015. In 1980, under communist rule, China’s leader devised the one-child policy. Communism is a political theory that everything is publically owned. Communism has a reputation of not working. The one-child policy stated that parents of Han ethnicity were allowed to have only one child. It was established because of a famine China had suffered due to the large population. Famine is the widespread scarcity of food. China’s one-child policy was a bad idea for three reasons, it was not needed, it created a gender imbalance, and it created an age imbalance.
Feng Wang and Cai Yong stated that the fertility rate was already declining and the policy wasn’t necessary for the Chinese people, especially because the enormous costs. The fertility rate, which is the number of children the average woman has in her lifetime, in China started at 2.7 in 1979 and decreased to 1.7 in 2008. The article “China’s One Child Policy at 30” argued that the policy did not need to be introduced in China because the rates were already lower than Brazil at 4.2 and Thailand at
After the long revolution from 1911-1949, the Chinese Communist Party had finally won control of the country and established the People’s Republic of China, on October 1, 1949. China since 1949 has had a tremendous result that has both modernized and revolutionized the country. After 1949, China quickly gained power and moved to gain the confidence of their population, particularly by solving the economic problems that followed after the civil war. It had generated low levels of domestic output, increased rates of inflation, and high levels of unemployment. A big issue that arose was food shortage and the prices of food increasing. It became a major priority if the new leaders wanted to achieve social stability, or even just to get the popular
After a civil war in 1949, communist leader Mao Zedong, encouraged all of his Chinese citizens to have more babies in order to increase the amount of people available to work. Following this increase of population, 30 million people died as a result of famine because of a food shortage. The Chinese government soon realized a need for a decrease in population, encouraging citizens to have less children. Though they saw a decrease in childbirth, it was not enough for stability. This caused China's One Child Policy, which limited its Han Chinese citizens to having only one child by law. The One Child Policy was a good idea because of its environmental, economical, and social benefits to China.
China's transition from the leadership under the iron fist of Mao Zedong to the more liberal Deng Xiao Ping gave the People's Republic a gradual increase in economic freedom while maintaining political stability. During Mao's regime, the country focused on bolstering and serving the community, while subsequently encumbering individual growth and prosperity. Deng advocated a more capitalist economic ideology, which established China as an economic force in the global community while endowing its citizens with more liberties and luxuries than previously granted.
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China’s population has shifted drastically over the past century resulting in ongoing issues that greatly impact the people of China beyond visually troubling demographic. China was once a poor and struggling country plagued with years of war and disease. The leader during this era, Mao Zedong had thought that influencing his people to grow their families it would lead economic prosperity. Sadly, the situation led a famine killing 30 million people. As a result of the disaster, Mao Zedong shifted his mindset towards an idea based around the slogan “Late, long, few”. Although fertility rates had dropped by half between 1970 and 1979, the Chinese government feared that the population was still growing too fast which then resulted in the one child
China’s communist party created this policy in 1979 and has prevented over 400 million births with the use of forced abortions and sterilizations like Uzbekistan. In January of 2016, this policy has been changed into a two-child policy due to a realization that there can be an economic consequence to the failing birth-rate. Also, due to the fact that couples can only have one child, the future of China’s population can be a burden. Researchers stated, “The graying population will burden health care and social services, and the world’s second-largest economy will struggle to maintain its growth (Jiang, Steven)”. With the lack of production for more newborns, the population will gradually have a majority of elderly people within their society. The new population policy made add an increase in population, but it still puts a limit on the population. If couples had this policy lifted, it can make the overpopulation problem occur again. Therefore, this transition from one child to two children helps balance out under-population and overpopulation in
Was China's one-Child policy a good idea? China's one child policy was introduced in 1980 with the fear of reaching the 1 billion population mark.China's one child policy was a great idea because it resolved China's population issue. The three main positive things that came from the one-child policy is population control, more respect for females and the environmental benefits.
In Spite of the great achievements that China has achieved in the recent years, our country is still a developing country, which is facing many serious social problems. The most serious of all is overpopulation, for it has a passive influence on the national economy, education and environment.
Over population has been a global issue for decades. Medical advances have made it possible for people to live longer and have multiple births, which are just some of the factors contributing to this social problem. Many countries have attempted to battle this issue, but none as intensely as China. China allows the government to have full control over family planning to help reduce the population. In 1979 China created a policy called the "One Child Law" which limits couples to only one child. Although the Chinese government hopes to curb the population boom and benefit society, the One Child Policy has morally questionable results, negative impacts on Chinese society, which should be changed.